Wednesday, November 21st 2018
AMD 8-core Ryzen APU to Power Sony Playstation 5, Says the Rumor Mill
Sony's announcement of the Playstation team skipping E3 2019 took everyone by surprise aside from a few on Reddit who had paid attention to a thread created the day before. Reddit user RuthenicCookie seemed to know a lot more about Sony's plans for their popular game console for the next few years, as well as game titles supporting this current console generation and the next. Amidst a lot of the tasty rumor bits that should interest console gamers, something more relevant to us directly is the mention of the Playstation 5 to continue using AMD for processing power.
This is a logical move to just about everyone familiar with the industry, and Sony needed to up the CPU horsepower in particular to compete with the XBOX One X and offer a true 4K/60 FPS solution for gaming without framerate drops galore. As such, said redditor shared information saying that the current plans involve an 8-core Ryzen-based processor and an estimated console price point of $500. Sony may well share a teaser about the console next year, with retail availability expected in the holiday season 2020 (two years from now, thus). As such, developer kits are likely already ready meaning the specs are finalized as well. This may mean we will see either the first or second gen Ryzen APUs, and not Ryzen 2 as many may have hoped. No word yet on what Microsoft is cooking in their side of the kitchen, but incremental console updates means we may see a Ryzen 2-powered console sooner than later as well.
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Reddit user RuthenicCookie
This is a logical move to just about everyone familiar with the industry, and Sony needed to up the CPU horsepower in particular to compete with the XBOX One X and offer a true 4K/60 FPS solution for gaming without framerate drops galore. As such, said redditor shared information saying that the current plans involve an 8-core Ryzen-based processor and an estimated console price point of $500. Sony may well share a teaser about the console next year, with retail availability expected in the holiday season 2020 (two years from now, thus). As such, developer kits are likely already ready meaning the specs are finalized as well. This may mean we will see either the first or second gen Ryzen APUs, and not Ryzen 2 as many may have hoped. No word yet on what Microsoft is cooking in their side of the kitchen, but incremental console updates means we may see a Ryzen 2-powered console sooner than later as well.
85 Comments on AMD 8-core Ryzen APU to Power Sony Playstation 5, Says the Rumor Mill
Steam hardware survey... i stoped reading after thatIt was never ever CONFIRMED that it was designed for Sony needs..
Gran Turismo 6 looked just so damn great.
But why Nvidia's RTX don't have a "remarkably tough launch" when they too bring a technology that is not, definitely not, ready for prime time? because the tech press is too lenient? The consumer buys imbecility?
Plenty of power for anything, from physix, to AI, to concurrent streaming and even old hardware emulation.
Wonder why PS4 is at 100 million units mark right now :rolleyes:
Here is proper link:
www.anandtech.com/show/6976/amds-jaguar-architecture-the-cpu-powering-xbox-one-playstation-4-kabini-temash
"GTX 1080 Ti performance"
Vega 56 performance is the most you can expect but hey, keep dreaming.
DX12/Mantle etc were all supposed to help with this, as with the vast multitude of PC configurations, but we all know how that is going/went.
Optimizing console games is about calibrating shaders and assets, not CPU assembly code.Really?
If anything, Direct3D and Mantle increases the effort for the developer. But this comes down to API calls to the GPU, not assembly code in the CPU.
RX590 inches in at 7 TFlops SP. Vega56 is at 8-10 TFlops SP but it can do also 20 TFlops in HalfPrecision - that might became important in games if the console's GPU will support it. Vega 64 is at 10-12 TFlops SP with 20-25 TFlops in HP.